Hm. I don't think I wrote what you read. The gist of my post is that the simpler the code, the more maintainable it is.

If that was your gist, your node was poorly written.

Utilitarian posted about the virtues of "allowing for" code to be fixed and modified, while 90% of your post is a rant about "adding functionality which is not required". However, thanks to your summary, I can see that there is actually not much we disagree on.